John Okalik

John Okalik was the colonial head-of-state of South Vietnam under France.

Biography
John Okalik was a politician from French Indochina, and in 1949 he was made the colonial administrator of South Vietnam under France before it would gain its independence from colonial rule in the 1950s. He led the country during the war with North Vietnam, which had invaded the Kingdom of Laos, a South Vietnamese ally.